Tag: Nigeria
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Romy’s New Track Features Beverly Glenn-Copeland Sample
Discover the powerful message behind Romy Madley Croft’s new track featuring a sample from Beverley Glenn-Copeland’s “La Vita”. Learn why the line “My mother says to me enjoy your life” resonated deeply with Romy and how it inspired her latest work. Find out more about Beverley Glenn-Copeland and his album “Primal Prayer”.
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…